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Join the
Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team
for lots of summer fun, fitness and friendship. We are a social team full of cultural vigor, that likes to eat.
We have been featured on television, local, national and international. We have a unique and internationally famous fundraiser dinner event.
We practice
Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm
Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm
Wednesday 6pm - 7:45 pm
We meet at Dragon Zone clubhouse - just south of Science World in Creekside Park above the Aquabus and dragon boat docks.
Our coach Todd Wong has 15+ years of experience including novice, recreational and competitive levels, and both community and corporate teams.
Our 2005 Season brought us the David Lam Award for being the team that best represented the multicultural spirit of the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, and Bronze medals at the Vancouver International Taiwanese Dragon Boat Race. In 2007, we won Gold in B Division at Vernon Races.
WHAT: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner - 12th Annual Dinner, celebrating 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns' birth + Chinese New Year's Eve.
CULTURE:
Our Performers
create something special for us every year with traditional and contemporary performances featuring everything in-between and beyond!
TLC BECOMES PROUD OWNER OF HISTORIC JOY KOGAWA HOUSE
VANCOUVER, BC – TLC
The Land Conservancy of BC are official owners of the Historic Joy
Kogawa House in Marpole. Thanks to 550 donors from around the globe and
one last minute donation of about $500,000 dollars from an anonymous
corporate donor, the cultural landmark will be saved as part of
Canada’s history for future generations. News of the generous donation
is very timely for TLC as the option to purchase the house closes today.
“The future of the Historic Joy Kogawa
House is now completely in our hands, and we are proud of what we were
able to accomplish with such a short deadline,” said TLC
Deputy Executive Director Ian Fawcett. “This is one huge hurdle
cleared. The next challenge is to continue raising the rest of the
funds necessary to complete this project, to restore the house
($200,000) and to set up an endowment to offset the costs of
establishing a writers-in-residence program ($300,000) in perpetuity.”
While formal funding requests to the City of Vancouver and to the Government of Canada are still not confirmed, TLC continues
to work through the process with them, as well as with several other
potential donors and grant agencies. Now that the immediate threat of
demolition is gone, TLC urges the public to donate to the future of the historical site.
“When we look at the
uncaring in our planet, here is evidence that relationships can be
rehabilitated, and the formerly despised can be embraced. The
dream that writers who are presently among the despised of the world
can come and write their stories here fills me with hope,” said
award-winning Canadian author Joy Kogawa. “Racism is a present tragedy
in the world, as it has been in the past. Here is one small way that we
can say in Canada, that racism can be overcome.”
After hearing the
news that the Historic Joy Kogawa House will be saved, a Grade 3
student from Tomsett Elementary School in Richmond – one of many
schools throughout the province that eagerly took up the fundraising
school challenge for Kogawa House –said: “It’s not like anything I’ve
done before. It changed every single way I think about every single
thing. I think saving Kogawa House is a great way of learning about
history. We learned about how people were discriminated against and how
we should think more about other people’s feelings. I felt very proud
of myself when I heard that the Kogawa House was saved.”
Donations for the Historic Joy Kogawa House can be made to TLC at (604) 733-2313 or online at www.conservancy.bc.ca
Why would www.scotsman.com be intererested in a story about "dangerous dragon boat dumplings" in China?
I have eaten sticky rice dumplings wrapped in tea leaves ever since I
was a young child. I have even helped my mother make them when I
was young. But now we usually purchase them at the many Chinese
food stores.
Sticky rice dumplings are traditionally thrown into the water to
appease the sea monsters during a dragon boat festival. In
Vancouver, I think we feel there is enough pollution in False Creek
already - even though the local rats would probably love them!
explorASIAN creates benefit fundraiser for Indonesian Earthquake victims
the following is from explorASIAN executive director Don Montgomery
MEDIA ADVISORY - for immediate release - May 29,
2006
On the morning of May 27, 2006, at 05.54 AM local time (at 03.54
PM Pacific Time on May 26, 2006), a powerful earthquake shook the Special
Province of Yogyakarta, inhabited by 2.6 million people, located in the central
part of Java Island, Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake, registered 6.3
on the Richter scale, is 15 miles from Yogyakarta, the capital of the Special
Province of Yogyakarta. Fatalities based on the latest official report were
approximately 5,136 people, mostly the residents of the Bantul Regency, in the
Southern part of Yogyakarta (population more than 770.000).
In light of this recent earthquake in Indonesia,
the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (explorASIAN Festival) will
turn its two free concert events at the explorINDONESIAN Batik
and Arts Exhibition at the Roundhouse Community Centre into benefit concerts for
earthquake relief. Admission to both concerts will be by donation and all
proceeds will go to the Canadian Red Cross. We invite the Lower Mainland community to attend the exhibition and the
two concerts and make a donation.
Friday, June 2 6:00pm - 9:00 pm Sharon Ong & Hartono's Jazz Trio
Concert Benefit Concert for Earthquake Relief in Indonesia
Admission by Donation
Introductions by Margaret Gallagher (CBC Radio)
Saturday, June 3 1:00pm - 3:00pm Angklung
Concert by Daeng Oktafiandi Udjo (from West Java) Benefit Concert for
Earthquake Relief in Indonesia
Admission by Donation
explorINDONESIAN Batik and Arts Exhibition May
23 - June 3, 2006 Monday to Friday - 10am to 9pm Sat & Sun - 10am to
4pm
All three events held at the Roundhouse Community
Centre, Vancouver 181 Roundhouse Mews
Babes and Chix make International Debut at Vancouver Regatta
By Janice Brevik
Vancouver, Canada -- Under questionable skies at the Dragon Zone (venue
near the Science Dome at former Expo site) in Vancouver, Canada, the
Babes with Blades and Chix with Stix made their international debut at
the 9th Annual False Creek Women’s Regatta. This is the fourth
year a TDBA crew has participated in the annual False Creek Women’s
fundraiser regatta. Clad in Hawaiian attire complete with
stunning red lips (provided by Ann Martin) the Tacoma teams with their
Canadian teammates had a great day of racing, eating, and talking
story. All that kept the rain at bay for the entire day.
The Babes, with first-time captain Ann Martin, started the action very
well with a first place win in their heat with a time of 2:49:74.
Not to be outdone, the Chix, captained by another first-time captain,
Diane Wetzel, followed suit in their heat, also with a first place time
of 2:49:61.
As luck would have it, the two first place wins had the Babes and Chix
opposite each other in heat two. The Chix placed first again with
a time of 240:15 and the Babes a close third with a time of
2:41:75. It was a very close race with the three boats inches
apart. A great finish watching—for spectators-not those in the
boats.
The third and final heat garnered the Babes with another first place
win with a time of 2:37:87. The Chix placed third in their final
heat with a time of 2:43:62. Both teams finished in the top 10 of
the 52 teams entered. Nice job ladies!
Both boats had composite teams of experienced, novice, first-time
racers and guest paddlers from Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragonboat team
from Vancouver. Gung Haggis also hosted us with food, water and
shelter, not to mention a healthy dose of good company and paddler
fun. Topping the racing activities was having Todd Wong serving
as guest drummer /caller/motivational dude with the Babes. Way to
go Todd!
Tips o’ the paddle go to Merri McHugh as our paperwork queen, Head
Coach Clem for critique of each race and tips to improve and our hosts
Gung Haggis Fat Choy—you are awesome! A great time was had by all
and we shared the spoils of our day with luscious Canadian chocolates
provided to each team by the race organizers—after the race, of course.
Thanks to all the paddlers, coaches, supporters and family
members that enjoyed this delightful event. We couldn’t have done
it without you.
Meet Chinese Anti-Hockey Grandpa: The Tim Horton's tv ad + comment from Russell Jung who played the young father
It's May, and a Canadian hockey team is still playing. Edmonton Oilers need one more win to elminate the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to advance to the Stanley Cup finals, awaiting the winner of the Buffalo Sabres - Carolina Hurricanes Eastern final.
Canadians, hockey and Tim Hortons - all very Canadian and perfect for a television commercial.... but wait the hockey father and the hockey grandfather are Chinese?!?! Do Chinese people play hockey? Where are the Chinese players in the NHL?
Back in 1972 and 1973, when my brother and I were in grades 6 and 7, we lived in East Vancouver, and would carry our ice skates and hockey sticks to school to play on Trout Lake after school.
Speaking of which... where are all the Chinese actors?
Russell Jung, who played the young father, in the Tim Horton's commercial contacted me (see below) + a Maclean's Magazine artile about anti-hockey grandfather.
Hi, my name is Russell, and I wanted to respond to Todd`s article posted
Feb 17,2006.
I played the young father Jimmy in the commercial and I live in Richmond.
When I did the Tim Hortons Commercial I never thought it would be this big.
I`ve been an actor, stuntman and model since 86 and i always thought that with
the asian population in Van. I would see alot of work.
It took a bit of time but this commercial so far is my hilight, all asian cast, hockey
and Tim Horton`s how canadian and we didn`t wear any glasses either. So I`m
glad that people enjoyed it and put asians and hockey in the
same sentence. TTYL Russ
(from Macleans)
Forget Hockey Dad. Meet Anti-Hockey Grandpa.
He's the star of the Tim Hortons Olympic ad. But what kind of monster is he?
TONY KELLER
Just be glad he wasn't your father. Or maybe he was.
Among the ads in high rotation during the Turin Winter Olympics were
Bell's beavers with cellphones, humans with Yoplait-induced logorrhea
-- and three generations of Chinese-Canadian men in Tim Hortons'
rinkside soap opera.
At first viewing, it's a heartwarming tale of fathers, sons, immigrants
and hockey. Does it get any more Canadian? Watching it, you probably
choked up a bit. But after seeing it for the fifth or 43rd time, you
may have started to wonder: what kind of a dad hates hockey so much,
and loves his little boy so little, that he refuses to go to his son's
games -- though he did once or twice sneak a peek through the Zamboni
tunnel, keeping his visits a secret, as if the rink were a crack house?
Canada, you know Hockey Dad. Meet his nemesis: Anti-Hockey Grandpa. No,
he will not drive you to the rink. No, he will not buy you a chocolate
bar afterwards.
For those who haven't seen the ad, a plot summary: somewhere in Canada,
Grandfather, stern first-generation patriarch of a Chinese-Canadian
family, has come to the rink to watch his grandson, Tommy. The father
is surprised to see grandfather, who has never been to see Tommy play
before. As they sit, the proud father, making small talk, says that
Tommy is a good player. "Better than you," shoots back grandpa. The
father shakes his head, asking: "How would you know?" You are, after
all, Anti-Hockey Grandpa. You never came to see me. You hated hockey;
thought it a distraction from school and homework. Flashback to the
early 1970s, and the son being dragged out of a road hockey game by the
patriarch. "You must study harder," admonishes the old man, leading him
into the house while blond neighbourhood boys play on. "Not just hockey
all the time." He spits out the word, "hockey."
So how can grandfather know that Tommy is a better player than the
father? "I come watch," says grandfather. The son can't believe it.
"Okay, what team did I play for?" asks the son. "You right wing," says
the old man, pulling out his wallet and finding a fading photo of a
preteen in a yellow sweater. And so the secret is revealed: 30 years
ago, he watched at least one game. "Thanks dad," says the son, as our
tear ducts swell. To which Grandpa replies, never making eye contact
with his son, "gimme my picture back."
Thanks? What kind of dad waits until his son is pushing 40 to tell him
that -- surprise! -- back when you were six, I did see one of your
games, and maybe I didn't think of you as quite the disappointment I
always told you you were? And what kind of a son, on learning that,
responds with "Thanks?" Folks have spent years on an analyst's couch
for less.
He's cold, but Anti-Hockey Grandpa could be a genuine Canadian
archetype, one a hockey-mad culture doesn't normally acknowledge. Paul
Wales, president of Enterprise Creative Selling, creator of the spot,
insists that the story's intergenerational differences speak to us,
especially children of immigrants. The Grandpa character, according to
Wales, represents a first-generation, small-business owner whose view
is, "you work hard and you work first, and that's what your life should
be about."
As for the revelation, 30 years too late, that Grandpa went to his
son's hockey game, "if we'd done it in a more gentle way, it wouldn't
have been genuine," says Wales. "He wouldn't have told him that he went
and he saw him. Because it's the way that relationship is with that
culture from that generation."
Wales says there's been a huge response to the ad, with some people
telling him that it makes them feel "like someone was looking right
into my family."
Victor Wong, executive director of the Chinese Canadian National
Council, may be one of them. He thinks most immigrant parents are more
balanced in their view of life than Tim Hortons' Grandpa -- but he also
recalls a time when his teachers told his parents that they were
worried that too many of his essays were about his favourite sport:
hockey. His parents took it in stride; Wong was doing well in school.
"But if you interview more 'Canadian-borns,' " he says, referring to
Chinese born in Canada, "they'll relay their own hockey story to you.
They all have one."
Which still leaves us with questions: if Grandfather was so opposed to
hockey, how did his son end up playing? Who bought him equipment? Was
Anti-Hockey Grandpa married to Hockey Grandma? We may never know. Wales
says there are no plans for a sequel.
Paddlers from Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver were evenly mixed throughout 2 teams resulting in 3 sets of paddlers with different paddling styles, levels of experience and racing intensity. GHFC paddlers use a traditional 6-16 start compared with TDBA's 4-20 start. Our paddlers followed the TDBA lead strokes and style, with greater success in each race. RACE RESULTS + SUMMARIES + PHOTOS more»
It’s a friendly “in the know” crowd at the Roundhouse. They know what it’s like to grow up Asian. But the comedy is universal. It’s the situations that we laugh at. The stereotypes, the mistaken identities, the misunderstandings. But Asian Comedy Night goes beyond the obvious. This is also a night of social commentary. Yes there is racial discrimination, but we don’t have to get down about it. If we can laugh at the world and ourselves, we’ll do okay....
OPM (Opening People’s Minds) is a sketch comedy troupe now based in Los Angeles, after first originating in Seattle. Charles Kim and Ewan Chung are the leaders with Jae-Suh and new kid Janina Gavankar. They also individually make the tv acting round in L.A. individually racking up credits in ER, Strong Medicine, Girlfriends and Las Vegas. ... joining the program is host Tom Chin + stand up comics Kermet Apio and Jeffery Yu. more»
Ottawa's 'final decision' on Chinese head-tax due in
June, PM says
GLORIA GALLOWAY
VANCOUVER -- Chinese immigrants who were
forced to pay a blatantly racist head tax will learn next month how the federal
government plans to address the issue.
Chinese Canadians have been calling on Ottawa for several years
to apologize for the tax and to provide some form of redress.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper indicated during the
recent election campaign that, unlike the previous Liberal government, he was
open to those requests. And he told reporters yesterday that the Chinese
community could expect a response in mid-June.
"We will be announcing our final decision on that
within the next month," Mr. Harper said. "There have been extensive
consultations across the country. I will be continuing some of those today and
we're very close to a final decision."
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Those who have been fighting for action on the head-tax issue said
they were encouraged by the goodwill extended by the Prime Minister when he met
with head-tax payers and their families in East Vancouver
later in the day.
"This meeting speaks to the sincerity and
personal commitment of the Prime Minister that head-tax redress remains a
priority of this government," Susan Eng, the co-chair of the Ontario
Coalition of Chinese Head Tax Payers and Families, said in a statement.
"The hopes and expectations of these Chinese
Canadian pioneers and their families for fair and just redress are now placed
in his hands and we expect that he will not disappoint them."
In all, about 81,000 Chinese immigrants paid
$23-million to enter Canada
under the head-tax scheme between 1885 and 1923. The Chinese Exclusion Act
followed, barring Chinese immigrants altogether until it was repealed in 1947.
Over the past 21 years, more than 4,000 head-tax
payers and families have registered with the Chinese Canadian National Council.
Many have died, and the council wants action while there are still a few
remaining to accept what the government is willing to offer.
But the government has had to determine how it can
properly apologize for the discriminatory tariff and its consequences. Canadian
Heritage Minister Bev Oda has been charged with
conducting national consultations on the issue, and her findings will heavily
influence the government's response.
Harper
hears first-hand of suffering caused by Chinese head tax
May 26, 2006.
01:00 AM
BRUCE CAMPION-SMITH
TORONTO STAR
VANCOUVER—Quon Chang Shee
Dere is 102. But old age couldn't stop the Vancouver resident from delivering a sharp
message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the issue of the Chinese head tax.
"I am going to
stay alive as long as it takes to get justice. How much longer would you expect
me to live?" she asked Harper in a meeting yesterday.
Dere's husband was one of some 81,000 Chinese immigrants who each paid a
$500 head tax to enter Canada
early in the century.
During a roundtable
meeting yesterday, Dere delivered a blunt appeal for justice in her own Chinese
dialect, said Mary Woo Sims, who sat in on the private meeting.
The Conservatives have
promised to deliver a formal apology for the head tax and redress to those who
paid it. Heritage Minister Bev Oda and Jason Kenney,
Harper's parliamentary secretary, have travelled the
country consulting with Chinese Canadians on the shape of the compensation
package.
For the first time
yesterday, Harper sat in on one of those sessions, saying he wanted to hear
first-hand the tales of racism and hardship before deciding the government's
position on compensation.
Charlie Quan, 99, told Harper how he toiled without break in a Saskatchewan coffee shop
for four years to pay off the money he had borrowed to pay the tax.
"Very hard work to
get money ... every day, even Christmas Day and New Year," he said later.
The session at the Strathcona Community Centre in the city's Chinatown
stretched for 90 minutes, a half hour longer than scheduled.
In total, Chinese
immigrants paid $23 million to enter Canada under the head tax scheme
between 1885 and 1923, when the Chinese Exclusion Act came into effect and
barred Chinese altogether until 1947.
The previous Liberal
government rushed through an agreement before the election providing $2.5
million for an educational foundation but offered no apology or compensation.
That sparked widespread
outrage among community leaders, including Sid Tan, who protested during former
prime minister Paul Martin's visit to Vancouver late last year.
Yesterday, Tan was
among those who met with Harper. Later, he said the progress they've made with
the Conservatives on the issue has been "astounding."
Prior to the meeting,
Harper said he expects to announce details of the compensation package in
mid-June.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks
during a press conference in Vancouver
on Thursday.
Canadian Press
Updated: Thu. May. 25 2006 11:40 PM ET
VANCOUVER —
The prime minister will apologize to Chinese head tax payers and their
families before Parliament rises for the summer.
Stephen
Harper had a one-hour meeting with three elderly head tax payers and other
members of the Chinese community on Thursday in Vancouver.
Fewer
than 20 Chinese Canadians who paid the racist tax are still alive.
Parliamentary
Secretary Jason Kenney said the meeting gave the Prime Minister a more human
perspective on the issue.
"If
nothing else this meeting means that when he offers his apology in the House
of Commons, he will be speaking with real feeling, with real meaning and not
just reading a speech that was written for him,'' said Kenney.
"This
has added an important personal dimension to the prime minister to the whole
issue.''
A
redress package will also be announced in parliament within the next month.
No
exact details on the package were discussed Thursday.
"We're
going to try to come up with a package that reflects a consensus within the
community,'' he said. "Not everybody will be
completely satisfied but most people should be generally satisfied.''
Eighty-four-year-old
Gim Wong, an air force veteran and descendant of
head tax payers, attended the meeting with Harper
"He
was very friendly,'' he said.
"I'm
just so happy. He has a patience and he seems so
interested. I think that's very important. One step at a time.''
During
last election's campaigns, the Conservatives won some support from the
Chinese community after promising to apologize for the head-tax.
The
Liberals, however, were unclear at the time on where the stood on the issue.
David
Emerson, the industry minister at the time, suggested they had new advice
that put the government in the clear legally when it came to an apology.
Former
prime minister Paul Martin offered a "personal'' apology on a
Chinese-language radio station.
Governments
dating back to Brian Mulroney's Conservatives have had a no-apology policy.
Kenney
acknowledged that there are many communities who have been victims of racism
but said the head-tax was a particularly appalling mark in Canadian history.
"There
was no other ethnic or cultural community that was so clearly targeted by
racist policies for so long," he said.
Thousands
of Chinese immigrants were forced to pay the tax as the price of admission to
Canada
between 1885 and 1923.
PM Harper meets with Head Tax Survivors and community redress leaders in Vancouver
The BC Coalition of Head
Tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants, quickly organized a meeting for
Prime Minister Stephen Harper to meet with surviving head tax payers
and descendants. This was similar to when the Coalition organized
a meeting of Head Tax payers, spouses and descendants to meet with
Parliamentary Secretary Jason Kenney, earlier the same day when Kenney
addressed the "town meeting" community consultation back in April.
Head Tax payer Charlie Quan was
there, as well as 83 year old Gim Wong, the WW2 Veteran who rode his
motorcycle to Ottawa last year to ask then PM Paul Martin for an
apology for Chinese Head Tax.
The BC Coalition had a meeting
following their meeting with PM Harper, and the atmosphere was very
jubilant. Head tax descendant and spokesperson Karin Lee
presented the BC Coalition's proposal directly to the PM, which calls
for redress compensation for each head tax certificate, rather than
limiting to only 1st generation descendants such as sons and
daughters. On the BC Coalition we feel that a "one payment - one
certificate" compensation package is the most fair. For example
in some families, only the grandchildren are the surviving descendants
now. As well, my 95 year old grandmother still holds her father's
brother's head tax certificate. Her uncle's wife and son died
before he could bring them to Canada due to the exclusion act. He
never saw his son.
Thursday » May 25 » 2006
PM Harper meets with head tax survivors in Vancouver to talk about
apology
Elianna Lev
Canadian Press
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Prime Minister Stephen Harper smiles while
participating in a private round table discussion beside Charlie Quan in Vancouver,
B.C., Thursday. Quan originally paid the
Chinese head tax when he immigrated to Canada. (CP/Richard Lam)
VANCOUVER
(CP) - The prime minister will apologize to Chinese head tax payers and their
families before Parliament rises for the summer.
Stephen
Harper had a one-hour meeting with three elderly head tax payers and other
members of the Chinese community on Thursday in Vancouver. Fewer than 20 Chinese Canadians
who paid the racist tax are still alive. Parliamentary Secretary Jason Kenney
said the meeting gave the Prime Minister a more human perspective on the
issue.
"If
nothing else this meeting means that when he offers his apology in the House
of Commons, he will be speaking with real feeling, with real meaning and not
just reading a speech that was written for him," said Kenney.
"This
has added an important personal dimension to the prime minister to the whole
issue."
A
redress package will also be announced in parliament within the next month.
No
exact details on the package were discussed Thursday.
"We're
going to try to come up with a package that reflects a consensus within the
community," he said. "Not everybody will be completely satisfied
but most people should be generally satisfied."
Eighty-four-year-old
Gim Wong, an air force veteran and descendant of
head tax payers, attended the meeting with Harper
"He
was very friendly," he said.
"I'm
just so happy. He has a patience and he seems so
interested. I think that's very important. One step at a time."
During
last election's campaigns, the Conservatives won some support from the
Chinese community after promising to apologize for the head-tax.
The
Liberals, however, were unclear at the time on where the stood on the issue.
David
Emerson, the industry minister at the time, suggested they had new advice
that put the government in the clear legally when it came to an apology.
Former
prime minister Paul Martin offered a "personal" apology on a
Chinese-language radio station.
Governments
dating back to Brian Mulroney's Conservatives have had a no-apology policy.
Kenney
acknowledged that there are many communities who have been victims of racism
but said the head-tax was a particularly appalling mark in Canadian history.
"There
was no other ethnic or cultural community that was so clearly targeted by
racist policies for so long," he said.
Thousands
of Chinese immigrants were forced to pay the tax as the price of admission to
Canada
between 1885 and 1923.
Asian Comedy Night is a tradition in Vancouver - started by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, seven years ago. It is great fun - poking at all the stereotypes of both Asians and White People.
This year, OPM (Opening People's Minds) returns, along with Vancouver stand up comic, Jeffrey Yu, returning host Tom Chin, and Seattle's Kermet Apio.
Bring your friends, and see how they squirm or laugh at the right or wrong places. Political correctness? Asian Comedy Night re-writes it. Cheers, Todd
Below is from the www.vact.ca website more»
Hip, Hapa and Interculturally Happening.... May 25th to June 1
I missed doing a HH&IH last week because I was consumed with
readying the Gung Haggis dragon boat team for their races of the season
at the Barnet Marine Park "Bill Alley Memorial Dragon Boat
Regatta." This weekend, the team will be racing under the Tacoma
Dragon Boat Association banner on the boats named Chix w/ Stix, and
Babes w/ Blades. Each boat will have paddlers from Tacoma,
Seattle and Vancouver. Look for us Saturday racing from 9am to
3:30pm, as part of the False Creek Women's dragon boat regatta, at
Creekside Park (just south of Science World).
Asian Heritage Month continues with lots of great performances, workshops and exhibitions - check it out at www.explorasian.org
Asian Heritage Month series
Meet the Composers: New Music and Poetry from China and the West
A program for Adults
Please join us for an evening of inspired music-making, as Vancouver's
acclaimed Orchid Ensemble performs works by composers Hope Lee and Mark
Armanini.
Celebrate Asian Heritage Month with an
evening of inspired music-making, as the Orchid Ensemble perfoms works
by Hope Lee and Mark Armanini. The composers will share their musical
journeys and discuss their works related to contemporary and ancient
Asian poetry.
Vancouver's acclaimed Orchid Ensemble
blends ancient musical instruments and traditions from China and
beyond, creating a beautiful new sound that is both creative and
distinct.
